Kami-Kumamoto

Weekday departures: 168/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 169/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:31 / 24:13 (00:13 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 6:00–7:00 (17)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 26 April 2026 to 3 May 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is complete: Kagoshima Main Line, Kikuchi Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Kami-Kumamoto Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• Kagoshima Main Line: Sojodaigakumae ⇄ Kumamoto (JR Kyushu)
• Kami-Kumamoto Line: Kenritsutaiikukan-mae
• Kikuchi Line: Kankanzaka

Kami-Kumamoto Station opened on 1 July 1891 as Ikeda Station, a Kyushu Railway stop in what was then Ikeda Village. It was renamed Kami-Kumamoto on 1 January 1901, anticipating Ikeda's absorption into the city of Kumamoto, which finally came in 1921. Nationalisation followed on 1 July 1907. Kikuchi Kidō, the forerunner of Kumamoto Electric Railway, opened its own station alongside on 1 October 1911, on what is today the Kikuchi Line, and the Kumamoto City Tram added a stop in front of the station in 1935. JR Kyushu took over the JR portion at the 1987 privatisation. Grade separation of the Kagoshima Main Line, undertaken in connection with the Kyushu Shinkansen, was partly completed on 14 March 2015, when the present fourth-generation elevated station building, designed by Eiji Mitooka, entered service.

The façade of the much-admired second-generation station building of 1913 was preserved when the line was elevated, and it now fronts the adjacent Kumamoto City Tram stop.